Kilpatrick: Google's strategy is building Gemini as one single unified model
Logan Kilpatrick · [AIEWF Preview] Gemini in 2025 and Realtime Voice AI · Jun 2, 2025 · at 12:25
Logan Kilpatrick (Google Developer Relations Lead) explains Google DeepMind CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu's architecture philosophy for Gemini compared to other AI labs.
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“Like we're here to make one model and like that model is Gemini. And like, I think you do need to just trust this point, like to make the capabilities work in some cases, like you do need to have these forks that like go off and make that capability and harden it and then find a way to bring it back into the mainline model. But like, we want to make one model and it's the Gemini model and like not have the sort of splintering of all these different capabilities.”
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